Word: massed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some such scheme appeared to have been employed shrewdly in behalf of Robert M. Leach of Taunton, Mass. He manufactures cookstoves (Glenwood Range). He wanted the G. O. P. to nominate him for Lieutenant-Governor. Seven other men wanted the nomination, a popular one nowadays perhaps because the Massachusetts Lieutenant-Governorship is one of the offices by which Calvin Coolidge came to fame...
...scheme was made public by General John H. Sherburne of Brookline, Mass., one of Manufacturer Leach's competitors for the nomination. General Sherburne cried out about "a scandal which would be comparable with the scandals in Illinois and Pennsylvania. . . . In a year when our supreme effort is being directed toward the carrying of Massachusetts for Herbert Hoover by an emphatic majority, we can ill afford a repetition of the Vare or Smith disgraces...
Engaged. Mary Whittle Moody, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William Ravell Moody of East Northfield, Mass., granddaughter of Evangelist Dwight L. Moody; to Arthur Worthington Packard, son of Mrs. Charles H. Packard of Dorchester, Mass., onetime Rhodes Scholar, Field Secretary of the World Peace Foundation...
...short bristles, a condition which, as he is doubtless aware, teases and annoys. Jed Harris edits and attends to the details of producing plays with a strange, irritable, creative fervor, so that you might think he had written them. Because he has picked four enormous hits out of the mass of plays that go the rounds of the producers' offices, people sometimes ask him for a formula, a hint of how to know. Jed Harris, like every truly successful producer, has no system. Three of his four most famed productions are full of fast action, two are full...
Women Patients. In foyers, away from the mass meetings, the men discussed what to do with prudish or amorous women patients. The best conduct, by general approval, is to treat the woman impersonally, as if she were a mere head of beef. Let the prude bring in a companion; let the companion sit guard in an uncomfortable iron chair. Many women become amorous as they recline in the dentist's chair. The prudent dentist hurts such patients enough to make them forget their involuntary eroticism. All agreed that the practitioner who coos to female clients is a fool...